SAN FRANCISCO – The former chief financial officer of a British software company was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco Monday to five years in prison for fraudulently inflating the company’s revenue before it was bought by Hewlett Packard Co. for $11.7 billion in 2011.

Sushovan Hussain, 55, a British citizen, was formerly chief financial officer of Autonomy Corp., which specialized in the analysis of so-called “big data.”

Hussain was convicted by a jury in the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer last year of conspiracy, 14 counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud.

In addition to imposing the prison term, Breyer on Monday ordered Hussain to pay a $4 million fine and to forfeit $6.1 million in his gains from the sale.

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